Should you trust health advice from internet forums?
Should you trust health advice from internet forums?

Health information on the internet used to be shaped by doctors. Now it’s being shaped by patients. And it’s patients, not doctors, who are making the real progress in providing health information that delivers what people really want to know. But how do you know if this information and advice is trustworthy, and worth heeding?

Microsoft focuses on  Xbox  applications
Microsoft focuses on Xbox applications

Microsoft hopes to vamp up its HealthVault and other health services by making it easier for users to do everything from tracking their caloric intake to counting their steps using their cell phones, according to researchers at a Microsoft forum on health care technology in Beijing.

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[This article was published in the August 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

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A ‘Tipping Point’ Year For Health Care IT, Says HHS
A ‘Tipping Point’ Year For Health Care IT, Says HHS

Health-care providers of all stripes face a host of technology challenges in the new year. Indeed, “the tea leaves are not settled at the bottom of the cup yet, but [providers] are already expected to budget for 2009, 2010 and beyond,” said Bob Booz, managing vice president for Gartner Research, at a kick-off town hall at Everything Channel’s Healthcare Summit in San Diego.

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